RFA Wave Sovereign (A211)
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| Name: | RFA Wave Sovereign |
| Ordered: | 29 May 1943 |
| Builder: | Furness Shipbuilding Company, Haverton Hill-on-Tees |
| Laid down: | 10 May 1944 |
| Launched: | 20 November 1945 |
| Commissioned: | 28 February 1946 |
| Decommissioned: | 1966 |
| Fate: | Scrapped in May 1967 |
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| Tonnage: | 8,187 gross register tons (GRT) |
| Displacement: | 16,483 tonnes full load |
| Length: | 492 ft 8 in (150.16 m) |
| Beam: | 64 ft 4 in (19.61 m) |
| Draught: | 28 ft 6 in (8.69 m) |
| Propulsion: | Parsons double reduction geared turbines,3 drum type boilers, 6,800 hp (5,100 kW). |
| Speed: | 14.5 knots (26.9 km/h) |
RFA Wave Sovereign (A211) was a Wave-class fleet support tanker of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary and was built at Haverton Hill by Furness Shipbuilding. She was extensively modified in the early 1960s.
She was decommissioned in 1966 and laid up at Singapore.[1] Wave Sovereign was scrapped there in May 1967.
File:RFA Wave Sovereign HMCS Nootka (DDE213) HMS Ocean (R68) off Korea 1952.jpg
Wave Sovereign replenishing HMS Ocean and HMCS Nootka off Korea, 1952.
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